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περιεργάζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιεργάζομαι περιεργάσομαι περιείργασμαι

Structure: περι (Prefix) + ἐργάζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to take more pains than enough about, to waste one's labour on, that they had overdone it, word), is there any superfluity
  2. to be a busybody, meddle with other folk's affairs

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ μὴν οὐδ’ ἐκεῖνό γ’ ὁρῶ, ὡσ τῇ μὲν πόλει ἀσφαλὲσ τὸ τὰ αὑτῆσ πράττειν, σοὶ δὲ κίνδυνοσ, εἰ μηδὲν τῶν ἄλλων πλέον περιεργάσει, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον σοὶ μὲν ἐξ ὧν ἐργάζει καὶ περιεργάζει τοὺσ ἐσχάτουσ ὄντασ κινδύνουσ, τῇ πόλει δ’ ἐκ τῆσ ἡσυχίασ. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 81:1)

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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